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Exercise

Load and explore your Twitter data

Now that you've got your Twitter data sitting locally in a text file, it's time to explore it! This is what you'll do in the next few interactive exercises. In this exercise, you'll read the Twitter data into a list tweets_data.

Instructions

100 XP
  • Assign the filename 'tweets.txt' to the variable tweets_data_path.
  • Initialize tweets_data as an empty list to store the tweets in.
  • Within the for loop initiated by for line in tweets_file:, load each tweet into a variable tweet using json.loads(), then append tweet to tweets_data using the append() method.
  • Hit submit and check out the keys of the first tweet dictionary printed to the shell.